RICHMOND — A city employee who reported fiscal misconduct has settled a lawsuit against the city for $104,000.

Stacie Plummer, a finance manager and 27-year city employee, alleged in 2012 that a human resources officer and the library director had been misusing city-issued credit cards for personal items. She also alleged that the former assistant city manager had been running a personal business out of City Hall.

In her suit, filed in 2014, she claimed that she had been deliberately passed over for raises or promotions as a direct result of her bringing these issues to light.

In particular, Plummer had raised the actions of former Assistant Human Resources Director Leslie Knight, who Plummer claimed used 30 percent of her workday on personal matters and misused public resources, including a city-issued credit card paid by public money.

The suit named the city, Knight, City Manager Bill Lindsay and two other current employees. She stated that since reporting these actions, she had been removed from her job duties from September 2012 until March 2014. She also alleged that during that time, she saw other less-qualified employees promoted, though she received none.

“The city of Richmond has a serious problem with retaliating against employees who speak out against corruption,” Sonya Mehta, Plummer’s attorney at the law firm Siegel & Yee said in a statement, adding the hope that the outcome “moves the city to stop retaliating against whistle-blowers.”

In a statement made in 2014, Lindsay had said that Plummer’s claims were “without merit” and that the city would work to defend the lawsuit vigorously. He could not be reached for comment Wednesday. Mayor Tom Butt’s office issued a statement on the settlement late Wednesday that said there was no admission of liability by the city and “no finding by a judge or jury that the city of Richmond had engaged in any wrongful conduct of any kind.” The statement also said that “with a few minor exceptions,” independent investigators determined that the dozens of complaints filed by Plummer over the years were unfounded.